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Home-rental firm Airbnb has “acqui-hired” the majority of staff behind ChangeCoin, a startup that operates the bitcoin-based social-media micropayments system ChangeTip, reported Quartz. Sources who spoke to the online publication said Airbnb has been researching some bitcoin and...

PYMNTS reported today ChangeTip’s new iOS app allows for users to tip in both USD and bitcoin. The social tipping and micropayments company launched the app on November 2nd. According to ChangeTip’s press release, ChangeTip focuses on microtransactions and believes in...

On August 19, San Francisco-based startup ChangeTip teamed up with Direct Relief to launch an eight-day fundraising campaign whose goal is to prevent deaths from pregnancy and childbirth complications, one of which takes place in a developing nation every two minutes, reported...

The Bitcoin community is in a near-constant state of debate. What will the price do? What does Bitcoin mean for the future? What industry will it disrupt? In an earlier article I talked about where Bitcoin is going, and that question is very much in debate. An important question,...

Nepal earthquake relief effort The major earthquake happening in Nepal on April 25th and subsequent aftershock on May 12th killed 9,000 people. The earthquake also caused an avalanche on nearby Mt. Everest, fatally burying 19 travelers. The Nepalese army and volunteers quickly...

Good news, ChangeTip fans: As of a few days ago, you can now spend your ChangeTip via Facebook, sending money to friends, family, or public figures like musicians. This will add to the stable of existing ChangeTip support, which currently includes Reddit and Twitter, expanding...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=9uA4KO2EEBU The first game of the Bitcoin Bowl has happened, and it was (by all accounts) a huge success. The advertisements were clever, the hash-tags were trending, and the mascot was just the right level of kitschy. The...

Social-media tipping platform ChangeTip announced today it has raised $3.5 million in a seed round led by Bitcoin investment firm Pantera Capital. With participants that include 500 Startups, Bold Start Ventures, CryptoCurrency Partners, and DCG, this latest round of funding will...

Changetip, a Bitcoin tipping service that we’ve discussed before, has set a record this week, breaking 10,000 tips in a single day. The service, which currently has about 34,000 registered users, can be used to allow people to “tip” Bitcoins to users of various...

If you haven’t used ChangeTip before, it’s pretty neat. The service, primarily used by Reddit up until recently, is simple: ChangeTip creates a digital “tip jar” for each user of a service. People can put money into their jar by linking a Bitcoin wallet, and can then...